Teaching

Education and Experience


Martha Carlson-Bradley has an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her BA in English from Salem State College. In addition to having taught American and contemporary literature, composition, advanced composition, and business writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Virginia Intermont College, and Salem State College, she has also frequently taught or led discussions about poetry and writing for the New Hampshire Writers' Project, the New Hampshire Young Writers' Conference, the Monadnock Writers' Group, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, and the Warren Wilson alumni writers conference, and she has led discussions as guest speaker at schools such as New England College and Keene State College. For more information or a complete c.v., please e-mail her by clicking Contact.

Sample Classes


These one-hour classes, primarily for adult, advanced students, were designed and taught by Martha Carlson-Bradley:

"Two Looks": Comparing the Craft of an Early and a Late Poem by Elizabeth Bishop

Concord, Discord: Creating a Concordance to Revise Your Work

The Flexible Sentence: Syntax in the Lyric Poem

The Flexible Sentence, Redux: Discussion of Syntax in Several Contemporary Poems

Ways a Poem Can Move

Life after the MFA: Advice for Soon-to-Be Grads

What Haiku Can Do for You
(a class for high school poets)